After drawing 0.4 ratings for its first two MLS broadcasts, NBC drew an overnight rating of only 0.3 for Saturday's Philadelphia-New York game.

The English Premier League and NBC each has a lot to be happy about in the three-year deal they announced Sunday.

The English Premier League, the most popular soccer league in terms of American television viewers, will have a new home on American television next season. Fox confirmed it lost out on the EPL rights it has held since 1998, and according to multiple reports the new home of the EPL will likely be NBC Universal.

Last Sunday's ESPN telecast of Seattle's 3-1 victory over FC Dallas that eliminated FCD from playoff contention didn't do well with the national TV audience. The game, which aired in a 9-11 p.m. Eastern time slot, generated an estimated audience of 211,000 -- the lowest viewership for the nine regular-season games on ESPN. On Oct. 7, another Sunday telecast in the same time slot of the Seattle-Portland game did much better: 290,000 viewers.

Fresh off its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Manchester United is preparing to literally set up shop in the United States. The club will open an office in the USA, somewhere on the East Coast, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

MLS may be planning to temporarily cap expansion in the near future at 20 teams, once a proposed team in New York City gets off the ground, but Portland owner Merritt Paulson says franchise fees will continue to rise.

Sirius XM Radio has created a new channel, SiriusXM FC, dedicated entirely to soccer. It's set to launch on Monday at Channel 94 and will offer listeners 24-7 soccer talk and play-by-play. The channel will also be available on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and other mobile devices and online at SiriusXM.com.   Fans will have access to live play-by-play broadcasts from the English Premier League (via talkSPORT) and UEFA Champions League and FA Cup (provided by Fox Soccer).

The lineups were similar and so were the outcomes last weekend when Fox aired a Premier League match on tape and NBC showed a live MLS game.